city budget
Mayor Adams puts taxpayers on the hook for $1.6 billion a year on migrants — ma💯ybe through 2029! 🧜
Mayor Eric Adams is trying to ensure that one big feature of🐷 his mayoralty stays in office, even if he doesn’t: billions of dollars in taxpayer money to put migrants... ܫ
Thank Joe Biden and Kamala Harris for the border policy costing NYC $5B — as it's expected to double
Thanks to Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, New York City shelled out more than $5 billion for migrant cost♚s, including $2 billion just on housing, over 25 months t💎hrough July,...
ꦐ City needs a🔯 jailbreak to escape pricey plan to close Rikers
Mayor Adams should scrap de Blasio's flawed program to build “smaller, safer, fairer" borough jails — before it sucks up even more money n💟eeded to fix bridges, schools and parks.
Small mental-health 'clubhouses' score $2M from NYC council but say it's still not enough
The City Council has ponied up $2 million for small mental-health "clubhouses" at risk of closing when๊ their contracts expire Sept. 30, but the funds aren't enough to keep all🦹...
City's migrant debit-card spending balloons — as no-bid vendor rakes in a fortune
According to the city's no-bid co💎ntract, more than $250,000 went in fees to the company providing the cards.
Mayor Adams just got taken for a ride by🦄 the spendthrift City Council
Mayor Adams has been doing victory laps over landing a final budget deal with the Ci🐎ty Council on time, but he did that by surrendering, and sticking the city with...
NYC Council passes $112.4B budget with 3 dissenting votes from democratic socialists over 'NYPD pet projects'
The 🎀New York City Council adopted a massive $112.4 billion spending plan Sunday in a 46 to 3 vote --𝕴 with 3 democratic socialist representatives Tiffany Cabana, Shahana Hanif and Alexa...
City Council takes Adams for a ride on risky budget 'plane'
Mayor Adams brandishꦑed a toy airplane to boast of his $112.4 billion budget agreement with the City Council — but the deal sඣhowed he'd had no flight plan.
Record-breaking $112.4B NYC budget deal reverses majority of Adams' cuts
The full scope of reversals had yet to be unveiled, buꦍt the mayor and ꦉspeaker touted a $58 million funding restoration to libraries Thursday night.
$58 million in NYC librar🔯y funding restored, branches expected to reopen Sundays
"In the final hours of negotiations, City Hall relented on many 🦹of the Council's calls for funding restoration,” a source told The Post. “It came down to the wire."
Mayor Adams quietly makes city's 'migrant crisis' permanent with budget spending
In his budget proposal, the mayor has finally admitted to reality — the migrant “crisis” is here to stay, to the 🎉tune𓄧 of $4.7 billion next year.
NYC needs these c༒harter reforms
If the Charter Reform Commission proposes some more fiscal discipline and the removal of the advocate, a worthless appendix of city government,🍨 it will have served the public well. ♑
How꧅ City Hall frittered away $41M on no-bid migrant shelter deal with 🍎dodgy DocGo
The secret no-bid contract with the dodgy 𒀰company is paying $1,100 a day for a single social worker and $65 an hour t♈o security guards.
City Health Commissioner Vasan's unforced mental-health miscue
Mayor Adams anﷺd Health Commissioner Ashwin Vasan are getting major pushback for mes🍸sing with small mental-health community centers — and rightly so.
𝓡 Mayor Eric Adams backs off millions in cuts for popular summer education program as budget standoff continues
Mayor Eric Adams has backed off cutting millions from a popular summer program that serves more than 100,000 Big Apple students amid ongoi𓆉ng budget negotiations.
NYC Council’s bid to block budget cuts boosted by report showing city actually has $2B surplus over Adams' projection
The Big Apple is sitting on an extra $2.2 billion in available funds than what Mayor Eric Adams projects through next fiscal year, a new study says. 🔜
NYPD grilled by City Council over 'unprofessional' social media posts, soaring OT costs as anti-Israel protests rage
New York C🦂ity Council leaders grilled NYPD officials Thursday, calling some social media posts by de💦partment brass "dangerous, unethical and unprofessional" during a heated exchange.
💛Security guards may be cut from🌠 NYC senior housing -- but some pols worry having more cop patrols is a bad idea
Security guards patrolling the Big Apple’s public housing for seniors could get axe﷽d due to budget cuts -- and some politicians worry that replacing them with cops could send theꩵ...
Adams defends axing firefighter who later died of heart attack leaving his family in financial mess 🐷
Mayor Eric Adams denied that the layoff of Derek Floyd was tied to cuts ꦍto cover🅺 the cost of the city's migrant crisis.
NYC firefighter's heartbreaking firing death: Letters to the Editor — May 1, 2024
NY Post readers discuss the heart-attack deathꦜ of FDNY fireman Derek Floyd after his firing due to migrant-related budget cuts. 🌞